Masoom

Interventions

Educational Infrastructure and Support

Masoom provides critical education infrastructure support and resources. This includes basic amenities such as nutrition (evening meals), notebook, textbooks, mobile science labs, computers and material for audio-visual learning. Braille learning tools and Braille Textbooks are provided to schools that have visually impaired students. Providing career guidance sessions, short term courses, long term courses, Entrepreneurship Development Programs and Placements. Masoom enrolls visually impaired students from rural areas by contacting 4 vocational training institutes that provide skill training to visually impaired students.

Capacity Building

Masoom works closely with various stakeholders in the schools such as the School Management Development Committee (SMDC), Trustees, Head Masters (HM), Teachers, Students, Alumni, Parents and Non-teaching Staff. Masoom organizes training sessions and workshop for these stakeholders. Masoom appointed school leaders as a support to the school s as well as to Masoom.

Advocacy

Masoom undertakes various initiatives to effect policy level changes in favor of Night Schools. Masoom’s aim is to create visibility for Night Schools through advocacy. This includes raising awareness among the key decision makers and the public, of the urgent need for policy level changes and their implementation. Meetings being conducted with officials from the Education Department to streamline the online program at school level.

Nutrition

During Covid-19 Masoom provided dry ration kits to night schools in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra as the school students survived on daily wages or work in the unorganized sector, most facing unemployment. Masoom provided food grain kits to 2107 Night School Students from 55 Night Schools of Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur & Ahmednagar region.